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*agrees hoe heartedly*

Why are so many white radfems obsessed with forms of oppression that do not happen commonly (or openly at least) in the West/are not generally accepted in the West , as if African feminists aren’t working every day around female genital mutilation and as if women in other places aren’t organizing against marrying off young girls to old men? As if that work is theirs to do and their voices are so badly needed in that conversation?

Why do they pretend that is anything but white saviorism wrapped up in a pseudo-radical package that lets them pat themselves on the backs for being concerned about black and brown brown girls?

Why do they pretend that cis women’s bodies are the actual sources of the way men treat us, inherently positing women’s bodies as the problem instead of how men decide they want to treat women? Misogyny is… about men.

sunfoundation

canisfamiliaris

Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?

The answer is NO.

The “fact” that junk food is cheaper than real food has become a reflexive part of how we explain why so many Americans are overweight, particularly those with lower incomes. I frequently read confident statements like, “when a bag of chips is cheaper than a head of broccoli …” or “it’s more affordable to feed a family of four at McDonald’s than to cook a healthy meal for them at home.”

(via sunfoundation)

alithea

this bullshit fills me with a very specific kind of rage. so, TIME TO DEBUNK!

that meal from mcdonalds takes virtually no time to acquire AND is available almost anywhere.

the second meal? that “salad” is lettuce … with nothing else, not even dressing unless its just olive oil or some milk i guess? gross.

also thats the price of each serving, not an entire loaf of bread, a bottle of olive oil, etc. that stuff adds up which means you have to have a lot of money at one time to buy it all.

that meal probably took an hour and a half to make, which is a long fucking time when you work multiple jobs or are caring for a lot of people or dont have help! seriously, if you are a single parent of three who works, is spending an hour and a half every night preparing a meal a likely option?

same with beans and rice! also, you know whats a fucking bummer? eating beans and rice every night because you are poor. ask any person who has done it and they will tell you (you can start with me).

there is a “nutrition” argument here that lacks a follow up: poor people are more likely to be doing physical labor and need more than 571 calories per meal.

you know who is less likely to know how to bake or prepare a chicken? people without access to the internet, or libraries, or who werent taught how to by their parents because their parents worked all the time. access to healthy foods is a classist issue and classism is cyclical, you fucking morons.

seriously, these sorts of infographics make me want to fucking flip tables. do you know why people don’t eat more fresh fruits and vegetables? because fresh fruits and vegetables are expensive, because they take a long time to prepare, because they dont live near a grocery store that has a decent produce section, because they dont have reliable transportation to get groceries to and from the grocery store, because they dont have the energy to plan all of the shit that is involved in making healthy, intentional, filling, balanced meals. basically: poor people get fucked, and then we get BLAMED for being lazy.

eating “healthy”, aka access to fresh fruits and vegetables, is a privilege, first, foremost, always. so fuck you new york times and your ignorant goddamn infographic.

there are SYSTEMATIC REASONS that we do not have equal access to fresh fruits and vegetables. they are very REAL problems. besides, you know, systematic poverty in america, the total mis-distribution of farm subsidies is a perfect place to start. read about that, then either get bent or start working on the actual problem.

toriemelody

sloral

"I often hear sentiments expressed to the effect that the world would be much better off if people just died or that the world needs to cleanse itself or people…To even make such a comment indicates that one has to be in a fairly privileged position in society where one is not faced with death on a regular basis. It also assumes that all people are equally responsible for massive environmental destruction, rather than facing the fact that it is people in positions of institutionalized power who are killing the earth to further their own economic interests. It is racist and imperialistic to look at people who are dying now from environmental degradation and say that it is a good thing that the earth is cleansing itself"

Andy Smith, Ecofeminism through an Anticolonial Framework (via

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nouc

baby cheek pink & banana milk yellow

nouc

i made these things based on hyejin obaek notebooks bc i loved them too much

actualdoitsu

I kinda missed out on this whole trans visibility thing because I was on vacation but here I am. I am a bit nervous sharing these because I feel like I still look feminine and I really haven’t told anyone but my very close friends, and now you guys! Also that America’s Dick thing is Florida.

#awesome friends #lookin good! 👌

Historians can literally claim and source how transatlantic slavery was a form of slavery never before seen in terms of mass population displacement, ecological effects on the territories, including Europe, the way it affected the economical system (many concluding that it catapulted capitalism), the physical and psychological violence towards slaves, the ‘rights’ of slaves (ancient slavery was incredibly different than that of chattel slavery, and much more damaging), the effects it had on both territories, Africa and the Americas (Africa was pretty much left defenseless to the colonization that happened soon after, effects of which are felt to this very day), cultural effects etc. But people will still try to argue that ‘well everyone was enslaved at one point’

Transatlantic slavery wasn’t just ‘slavery’, it was physical and cultural genocide, colonization, mass displacement of people, like I literally don’t understand how people can be so fucking daft. History doesn’t happen in a fucking vacuum. Slavery didn’t end and then shit was ‘back to normal’. People aren’t ‘just upset’ at slavery, people are upset it didn’t end there, it continued with different systems of oppression. Please read a fucking history book.

History does not happen in a vacuum. The way things are today didn’t just happen out of nowhere, it’s all a series of events that have lead to the state of today. Where red lining is still a thing, housing/job discrimination is still a thing, mass incarceration is still a thing, unjust murders are still a thing, all based on a white supremacist system. Which… Guess what, stem from… Historical events such as… Slavery!

Wow that was a hard one huh? I did my homework, so don’t no one come to me asking me for sources, it’s all readily available through the magic of internet.